[R] RE: Venables & Ripley 3rd edition

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I have in my inbox a note saying books are expected in early August.
However, for R users there is relatively little advantage in the third
edition, except that almost everything works unchanged. The real advantages
of the third edition are for users of S-PLUS 5.x and 4.5/2000.

> From: Marc R. Feldesman
> To: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it; 'Guido Masarotto '; 'Maria Wolters '
> Cc: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch '
> Sent: 6/6/99 9:29 AM
> Subject: RE: [R] R: question about vectors + for loop
> 
> FWIW.  Amazon.com is accepting orders, but after having placed an order
> last week, I received a note from Amazon.com (today, 6/5/99) telling me
> that the order was cancelled because they have no estimated delivery
> date
> from the publisher.
> 
> At 06:48 AM 6/6/1999 +1000, Venables, Bill (CMIS, Cleveland) wrote:
> >(This is actually about something that arose in Guido's
> >reply.)
> > 
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >  ...and perhaps to some of the  suggested reading 
> >  listed in the FAQ (the recommended one is
> >  W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (1997), 
> >  "Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. 
> >  Second Edition".  Springer, ISBN 0-387-98214-0
> >  Third edition is forthcoming (Brian Ripley can be 
> >  more precise) so my suggestion is to get a copy 
> >  from a library, not from a book shop) 
> >
> >That's a very kind recommendation and thanks.  
> >
> >Actually I doubt Brian Ripley, Bill Venables or even 
> >Julius Springer himself can be more precise at this 
> >stage.  There was a very minor late change (at 
> >Springer's request, so it had nothing to do with
> >content, only form) which has probably set back the
> >production process by a short time.  If it comes out
> >in June it will be in late June and I think July is
> >now more likely.  Amazon.com still has June 1999 as
> >the date, though, and are accepting orders.
> >
> >Bill Venables.
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> Dr. Marc R. Feldesman
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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